Haughty, Obviously Idle
Sirs:
An orchid and many thanks for your article on Florida (TIME, Jan. 10). I have just finished reading it, while I . . . wait here in the U.S.O. at Washington's Union Station for a train to get me back to my ship—I hope before she sails without me.
I am already A.O.L. [absent over leave] and no prospects of even getting standing space on the next train. But I am only one of scores of service men & women who have spent the afternoon watching haughty, obviously idle people with train reservations carry expensive luggage and golf...